Birthdays:
Pope John Paul II, Grover Cleveland, Ezio Pinza, Czar Nicholas II, Omar Khayam,
Walter Gropius, Reggie Jackson, Margot
Fonteyn, Robert Morse, Perry Como, Dwayne Hickman aka Dobie Gillis, Big Joe
Turner, Richard Brooks, Miriam Margolyes, Chow Yung Fat is 61, Tina Fey is 46,
Robert Morse is 85
1911-
Composer Gustav Mahler died of heart disease shortly before his 51st
birthday. He had completed his Ninth Symphony with dread, because he knew
Beethoven, Schubert and Bruckner had never lived beyond their nine symphonies.
On his
table were preliminary sketches for his tenth.
1940-
John Halas and Joy Batchelor founded Halas & Batchelor, the first major
animation studio in England.
1976-
The filming of Francis Ford Coppolla's Apocalypse Now was disrupted when the
Philippines was hit by a major typhoon. Francis rides out the storm cooking
pasta, smoking pot and listening to records of La Boheme.
2001- Dreamworks animated SHREK opened. The voice of Shrek
was originally planned to be Chris Farley but the obese comedian died of a drug
overdose and was replaced by Mike Myers. I’m serving Waffles!
2003 Pixar’s Finding Nemo opened.
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